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Junior Graycin Andreen took first in the 200-yard freestyle (25.49 seconds) and was a part of Orono’s gold medal 200 free relay with senior Mallory Knutson, junior Lola Schottler and senior Elle Davis (1:36.53). The same relay team finished second in the 400 free (3:33.70).
Andreen also took silver in the 100 butterfly (26.48) and Knutson bronze in the 200 IM (28.03), but the team relied on strong scoring performances across all eight lanes to take the meet trophy.
“It’s never depending on one person or a couple people that lead the way,” Orono coach Mark Seguin said. “We have a group of some really feisty girls that like to compete, and when you put them together, that just kind of amplifies, and they find ways to just outdo even my expectations for them, and they do it time and time again.”
Early in the season, Orono tried something new, scheduling a dual meet against 2A heavyweight Minnetonka. The Spartans normally win most of their 1A meets, so they challenged themselves against dominant competition “knowing we would absolutely get slaughtered,” said Seguin.
“But I wanted to see them compete as hard as they could when they knew there was no chance to win,” he said. “[Seeing that], I thought they had the makeup of the team that could win a state championship.”
Afterward, the teams bought pizza and talked about their goals. For both teams, that was a state title, of course.
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